As Dr. F. I. Regardie, himself a trained Reichian analyst and vegetotherapist,1 has pointed out, the very idea of the existence of such a link would probably have given Reich heartfailure—nevertheless, there is no doubt that Reich arrived quite independently of the occult tradition at a theoretical position very similar to that which is held by at least some exponents of that same tradition. While Wilhelm Reich, born in Austro-Hungary on March 24th, 1897, was of Jewish extraction his background was not in the least typical of the central European Jewish life of his period; his mother-language was German, not Yiddish; his father was a farmer, not a trader or a member of the professional middle classes; and his parents had no religious beliefs—although they encouraged their son to read the Bible as a matter of scientific interest. Between 1907 and 1915 Reich attended a German-language High School, specialising in the sciences and graduating with “excellent” in all subjects; subsequently he was enlisted into the army where he fought on the Italian front and was commissioned as a lieutenant.
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